The travelling exhibition Real Fábrica de Tapices. More than 300 years of uninterrupted history has been inaugurated in the Temporary Exhibitions Hall of the Palace of Charles V of the Alhambra of Granada.
The exhibition includes about 100 pieces, including a cardboard of Christopher Columbus kneeling before the Catholic Monarchs, key figures in the history of Granada.
The opening ceremony was chaired by General Antonio Ruiz Benítez, the secretary general of the Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife, María Belén Jiménez Borrego, and the director general of the Real Fábrica de Tapices (RFT), Alejandro Klecker de Elizalde.
María Belén Jiménez Borrego, declared: “This exhibition allows us to admire not only the beauty and art of tapestries and carpets that have been created over three centuries, but also invites us to reflect on the great legacy, both cultural and historical that the Real Fábrica de Tapices has left in our country.”
For his part, Alejandro Klecker de Elizalde explained that, “almost 100% of our activity is of Andalusian origin. And it is with this Hispanic-Muslim heritage that we continue to manufacture our carpets and tapestries.” He also referred to the link between the Real Fábrica de Tapices and the Hispanic-Muslim legacy, “both for the materials used in the manufacture of carpets and tapestries: flax, merino wool, cotton and silk; and for the plants used to dye the fabrics. And even for the textile processing techniques currently used in the FRG, such as the Spanish knot.”
The exhibition, which can be visited until next May 18, has had the collaboration of the Army, the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, the Junta de Andalucía and the Association of Friends of the Institute of History and Military Culture. In parallel to the exhibition, a series of conferences and workshops will be held to complement the museographic discourse of the exhibition.
